How can it be complete bullshit? It works correctly and the reason why there not that many teams is not the fault of the program, which mechanic you prolly don't understand eventho it's quite simple, it's the arena activity which is insanely low this season.

AS3 is pretty worthless at this point unless you are coding Facebook Flash games. You should probably take this opportunity to learn a useful programming language.

Doesn't really matter since AJ always has a title calculator when the 2 week notice comes out.

Yes he should be ashamed of himself. You are absolutely right and this topic is about the programming language choice for an elementary school level task.
He should take a 2 year break and write this in assembly, well because let's face it, it matters, he needs to acknowledge computer elitist trolls in this forum that derail the thread.

i find it hard to believe that ladder activity has decreased by over 50% on all bgs

It has, I can't say that pvp has been completely ignored but it has been a bit neglected compared to other aspects of the game. Now with less people playing it will probably get even less development time. The gear and catchup changes will bring in more casual players but I think the damage has already been done.